I’m after some advice on how to play this - I’m going back to work shortly, and it’s going to interfere with my 6 month old DD’s sleep ‘schedule’ (such as we have one). Currently she wakes for the day around 6am, nap about 8/8:30 for an hour, next nap around 12pm (this one is hit and miss), nap around 3pm, again about an hour, and bed about 7pm.
Work will be 3 days a week, is approximately a 45/50 min commute, and babe is going to a childminder near work so will be travelling with me. The morning nap is perfect as I’ll probably leave about 8 so she will likely sleep in the car. Lunch nap is the childminder’s problem on those days 
. It’s the afternoon/evening I'm stuck with - I will probably be leaving to come home between 5 & 6, so if she falls asleep in the car that’s affects bedtime - would you:
A) drop the afternoon nap and encourage her to sleep in the car, then attempt to run it into bedtime, so she’s effectively going to bed about 5:30/6 with a little rouse to change and feed when we get home and resettle in crib.
B) keep the afternoon nap and try to make sure she doesn’t sleep in the car (this is unappealing as the other option tends to be scream!)
C) keep the afternoon nap, encourage her to sleep in the car also, then wake her fully when we get home and push bedtime back to 8pm (resulting in not much adult time for DH and me)
D) a much better solution I haven’t thought of yet!
Also, what to do with the days I’m not at work? Keep old routine or adjust to match work days? I’m looking forward to going back, but this is stressing me out a bit, as overnight sleep is already pretty awful so more disruption is not going to help, I fear... any advice welcome.